Northern Lights

The Northern Lights are an amazing phenomenon of nature, a real pride of the Murmansk region. Thousands of tourists travel to the North every year in the hope of seeing colorful flashes in the sky.

What is the Northern Lights?

Science gives many definitions of this process. The Northern Lights (aka Aurora Borealis) are “the glow (luminescence) of the upper atmospheres of planets with magnetospheres due to their interaction with charged particles of the solar wind.” Color flares in the sky are a direct result of solar activity.

When is the best time to wait for the Northern Lights?

Its appearance in the sky is the result of the coincidence of several factors, each of which is quite difficult to predict. The first parameter is solar activity. Strong flares on the Sun and the ejection of charged particles towards the Earth are the first most important conditions for the appearance of the Northern Lights. The second condition is that the street should be dark and clear. If you see stars in the black sky, then there is a good chance of catching the Northern Lights.

How often can you see the Northern Lights in the Murmansk region?

In the Murmansk region, the aurora can be seen from August, when the polar day is already over and the nights become more or less dark, and until the beginning of May, when the polar day begins to enter into its rights, making the nights quite short and bright. On days when the sky is clear and dark, and a few days before there was a flash on the Sun, you can start looking for the Northern Lights.

What is the Northern Lights like?

The Northern Lights come in varying degrees of intensity, brightness and even different colors. The most common glow is green or pale green. This can be seen quite often - in some weeks it appears literally every day. Sometimes, when preliminary solar flares were particularly powerful, solar particles punch deeper than normal. Then there is the rarest, but also the most beautiful radiance – color. It shimmers with green, blue, purple, yellow and other colors of the rainbow. To see such a brightness is a great luck.

Where is the best place to look for the Northern Lights?

The Northern Lights are best seen where there is no lighting - outside the city. There is a possibility to notice and consider even quite faint flashes in the sky, not to mention the bright Shining. However, if the solar activity was very powerful or even medium, the Shining can be seen in the city without going far beyond its limits. But you have to be very attentive and often look at the sky.

What is the secret of the Northern Lights?

No one can ever guarantee that you will be able to see the Northern Lights during your stay in our country. It is always a hunt and always a lottery, the results of which cannot be known in advance. But there is one nuance... The main secret of the appearance of the Northern Lights is a great desire to see it! Only it will allow the universe to do everything so that you could admire the magical overflows in the sky, increase the activity of the sun in advance and disperse the clouds over your place of contemplation. And you will definitely witness a wonderful phenomenon of nature - the Northern Lights.

Tour "Hunting for the Northern Lights":

At the signal of our specialists, we go to special observation decks, the most suitable for viewing the Northern Lights, located outside the city of Murmansk (distance up to 50 km). Along the way, you will learn everything about the nature of the origin of this amazing phenomenon, you will be able to independently find it in the sky and even get a photo on the background of the Northern Lights.

Duration: 3-4 hours

Price: 6,500 per person

Season: September 1 to April 20

• transfer along the tour route;
• Your photo with a glow on professional equipment
• sightseeing

The price is per person.